Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crowd of more than 35,000 flocked to Leeds Road on the Wednesday afternoon and several workshops had to close down . |
| 2 | If , for example , it were to be suggested that management had paid insufficient attention to the development of the company 's product base , establishing that this amounted to negligence would be highly problematical . |
| 3 | It was held that this amounted to recklessness . |
| 4 | A child , no more than three motioned to Ralph and said , |
| 5 | Others worried that riveting led to cancer of the breast . |
| 6 | If Labour came to power , it would remove all that money and thus deprive the public of the pleasure of the special exhibitions that are staged as a result of the charging policy . |
| 7 | It would be helpful to know if that belonged to Harry . ’ |
| 8 | DEC accounts for half MasPar 's sales ( Kalb would prefer it if that fell to 33% ) , and the firm is concerned that if DEC fails to position the ostensibly competing parallel lines clearly , potential customers will be confused . |
| 9 | It has developed new reactor designs , instigated research into everything from waste disposal to the potential for nuclear fusion , was responsible for fuel fabrication and reprocessing ( until this devolved to BNF in 1971 ) , and has put a major part of its effort into developing a commercially viable fast breeder reactor . |
| 10 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 11 | They were pursued , some into the Till , where many drowned and some swam to safety — if it was indeed safety , so far into England — on the further side , some as far north as the Tweed and the border , thirteen miles away . |
| 12 | After the second last Pitman sneaked another look behind him , and this telegraphed to Brian Fletcher that all was not lost . |
| 13 | The lower limit of TL dating of sediment is closely linked with uncertainty about how far the sediment was bleached in antiquity , and this led to development of the optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) technique . |
| 14 | At the end of 1989 joint military exercises were held with Singapore ( in Indonesia ) , and this led to speculation that Singapore might wish to negotiate military training facilities in the country to replace those which it currently used in Taiwan . |
| 15 | Changes in the official interest rate once again took on a high political profile and this led to problems with the conduct of monetary policy . |
| 16 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 17 | Of 252 people who were questioned , 51 were exiled and 21 condemned to death . |
| 18 | Yeltsin won 535 votes ( four more than necessary for the required simple majority ) , Vlasov won 467 , and 11 went to Valentin Tsoy . |
| 19 | Many went fishing and many went to Burton . |
| 20 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 21 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 22 | In the 19th century the rich and famous came to San Remo and insisted on the very best . |
| 23 | 1990 No. 2203 ) , matters of complaint in paragraphs 6 , 7 and 8 corresponded to paragraphs 1 , 4 and 5 of Schedule 8 as amended . |
| 24 | The trolleybuses were replaced by two motor bus routes , 154 and 157 , which ran from the Crystal Palace beyond Sutton to Morden and 157 continued to Raynes Park . |
| 25 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 26 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 27 | 19 murders in Belfast this year — 15 carried out by loyalists and four attributed to republicans . |
| 28 | Mr Turner his wife and three daughters aged eight , six and four moved to France in April and his auberge opened in July . |
| 29 | More than two-thirds were privately educated and 400 went to Eton . |
| 30 | Nos. 44 and 48 passed to London Transport still with bogie mounted plough carriers . |